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Midterm Viola Arduini
translating information into DNA
at 45:22 in the Midterm presentations Video 1
Kosuke: There's a method to use epigenetics to store information. Biopolymer storage is cool! BUT, you need to make sure there's no DNase or enzymes can digest or harm(alter) your information in the storage. An Epigenetics-Inspired DNA-Based Data Storage System
Roland: @Kosuke: definitely going to check that epigenetics based method. You can also look at what we did with Return to Dilmun(in april 2017), where the digital image was translated into a DNA code, synthesized, edited with CRISPR-Cas and sequenced to view the picture again.
Georg: DNA as an information storage has quite some history, with the most famous and most poetic examples being Joe Davis' MicroVenus, and his Milky Way DNA, where Joe did encode the image of the Milky Way into the ear of mouse. He is currently also at the George Church Lab at Harvard, he was involved in Muybridge Movie and the hand, which is a reference to the Lascaux painting.
I'd be curious, how exactly Viola wants to transcode her data to DNA. What is the code? Can the plant access the code? Will the plant change? She also wants to release the genetically-transformed (GMO) plants into the environment, I suggest to how a close look at rules and regulations in Mexico.
The image of the mouse in the plant will only be a poetic representation, how about sequencing the mouse and storing the actual DNA of the mouse in the plant?